View From Here: Liberty & Equality

View From Here: Liberty & Equality: The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution. The Constitution, written in 1787 and ratified in 1789, was viewed by...

View From Here: International Conversations

View From Here: International Conversations: This blog experienced a large increase in readership in recent months. I think it began with our election in November. Shortly thereafter I...

View From Here: Age and Feelings

View From Here: Age and Feelings: Today is my mother’s 103 rd birthday. She lives in Arizona where the sun nearly always shines. At her age, however, she doesn’t get out i...

View From Here: Turning it All Over

View From Here: Turning it All Over: When I quite smoking I was prepared. Months of thinking about it. Setting the day of final inhaling of smoke. A supply of patches at hand t...

View From Here: What We Must Do

View From Here: What We Must Do: At church Sunday we chatted before service on starting a weekly discussion group to cover people’s concerns over current issues. Two people...

View From Here: Too Much Day; Not Enough Night

View From Here: Too Much Day; Not Enough Night: I awoke thinking of this phrase recently. It kept echoing in my mind. Over and over it nagged. A lot of thoughts came up then; scattere...

View From Here: Age Old Questions

View From Here: Age Old Questions: Who’s in charge? What’s the difference between policy and law? What points of agreement do we share? How are we different from one another?...

View From Here: Perspective – Holding on To It

View From Here: Perspective – Holding on To It: By now it is obvious my blog posts are chronicling a process, a very personal one. It is mine. It may be like yours, or not. Each of us liv...

View From Here: Pursuit of Happiness

View From Here: Pursuit of Happiness: Following my own path these days. Looking at opportunities and new thoughts. Ideas to follow and wonder how they will come out. The proce...

View From Here: Gaining Control

View From Here: Gaining Control: Scanning news-feeds I see chaos over national and international issues. Government issues, really. Who’s in charge, what’s being said, who’...

View From Here: One Day At a Time

View From Here: One Day At a Time: The mantra of ‘take one day at a time’ is good advice for all of us. Life is complex even in the simplest of situations. Jumbling things to...

View From Here: Owning Our Lives

View From Here: Owning Our Lives: I write this blog so I can delve into what makes me tick. What is important to me? What has depth and what is shallow? What are my interest...

View From Here: Checks and Balances

View From Here: Checks and Balances: There is much unrest in America today. Millions of people align with various positions on many issues. Some days the issues are hot; other...

View From Here: Volunteer Glue

View From Here: Volunteer Glue: Do you volunteer? For Little League, Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, church school, church nursery, or anything like that? How about the village ...

View From Here: Games or Values?

View From Here: Games or Values?: When we were kids we played a game called Fiddle Sticks. The primary action was to toss the bundle of fiddle sticks into the air and let th...

View From Here: What’s Bothering Me?

View From Here: What’s Bothering Me?: In the Age of Trump here are the things that most concern me. I’m not sure of their priority order but I list them as they come to mind in ...

View From Here: Schism

View From Here: Schism: We have two America ’s today. Scan Facebook and the media if you don’t believe me. Rhetoric is loud and plentiful. Difference of opinion sc...

View From Here: Lady Liberty

View From Here: Lady Liberty: Here we go. Struggling to define freedom. All over again. I thought we had already done this. Didn’t you? So why are we in this struggle to...

View From Here: Sensing a Shift?

View From Here: Sensing a Shift?: I may be wrong. I may be deluding myself. But I’ll say it anyway – I sense a shift in public attitude toward Trump. This is coming after a ...